Word Could not re-establish a DDE connection

[Trevor Stone]

Hi all,

While attmepting a mail merge between Access 97 and Word
97 we receive an error message about "Word could not be
able to re-establish a DDE connection".

An ODBC connection seems to find the database, but only
seems to go down to the table level, not the query level
that we need.

According to the MIcrosoft Knowledge bases article
123698, this error is caused by quotation marks in a
query or table.

There don't appear to be any in the database.

Does any other punctuation cause this? I this that there
is a question mark and a greater than arrow somewhere in
the database - but not quotes..

Please advise..

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Trevor,

While attmepting a mail merge between Access 97 and Word
97 we receive an error message about "Word could not be
able to re-establish a DDE connection".

An ODBC connection seems to find the database, but only
seems to go down to the table level, not the query level
that we need.

In the window where you see the list of tables, click the
"Options" button, then activate "Views" to add the queries
to the list.

I think there are also other things that can cause the "DDE
connection" error message. Unfortunately, the issues can't
always be resolved, but you might try reading through the
KB articles for later versions of Word, as well, to see if
anything in them helps.

According to the MIcrosoft Knowledge bases article
123698, this error is caused by quotation marks in a
query or table.

There don't appear to be any in the database.

Does any other punctuation cause this? I this that there
is a question mark and a greater than arrow somewhere in
the database - but not quotes..

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update
Sep 30 2003)
http://www.mvps.org/word

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